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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

drink something like lemonade en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile) To drink something (especially an alcoholic drink) easily and in large quantities.
    • The weasel drank his scotch like lemonade and before we had even touched upon our topic of interest he ordered another. 2011, Joe Thompson-Swift, A Choice of Evils:
    • I had come to love sweet mixed drinks — whiskey sours, Bacardi cocktails, daiquiris — and I drank them like lemonade. 1981, Mary Ann Crenshaw, End of the Rainbow, page 12:

Forms

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drunk something like lemonade Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drinks something like lemonade Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drank something like lemonade Tense=Past lexicographic
drinking something like lemonade Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic